抄録
Understanding of the rheumatic patient condition in a busy orthopedic clinic is not so easy. We tried to classify the RA patients into 5 groups in order to understand the patient's clinical condition easily: 1) initial condition, 2) incomplete remission, 3) complete remission, 4) inflammed condition, and 5) burned-out condition. Then we made preliminary criteria for the conditions by estimating the items which indicate their inflammatory states.
